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Judges of the Constitutional Court (CC) of the Republic of Armenia (RA) cannot be changed until Article 88 of the Law on the Constitutional Court has been amended. National Assembly former deputy speaker and ex-minister of justice Arpine Hovhannisyan wrote about this on her Facebook page. She added as follows, in particular:

“[Incumbent justice minister] R. [Rustam] Badasyan admitted that they worked carelessly when they did not amend the RA Constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court. But that carelessness has a very high price and deprives them at this time of the opportunity to take any action against the Constitutional Court. Let me explain why.

He is right when he says that the CONSTITUTION has the highest legal force, but he is wrong on an important issue. It was the 2005 Constitution whose Article 6 of the general principles spoke about the DIRECT action of the Constitution.

It is NOT WRITTEN  in the 2015 Constitution that it has a direct action; that point has been removed. Only Part 3 of Article 3 states that ‘Public authority is limited by with fundamental rights and freedoms of the man and citizen as a directly working right.

That is, in all other cases except for this case, the Constitution DOES NOT HAVE direct force and must be specified in the laws. And in this case, it is written in the RA CONSTITUTIONAL Law on the Constitutional Court that those judges are in office.

At the moment, there is another regulation in that law, and you are obliged to respect that regulation.”

Armenia justice minister responds to Constitutional Court judges' statement

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